Acts 24:1-13 And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with a certain orator, Tertullus, who made a statement to the governor against Paul.

MKJV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ And after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders and with a certain orator, Tertullus, who made a statement to the governor against Paul. ² And being called, Tertullus began to accuse, saying, ³ Since we enjoy great quietness by you, and very worthy deeds are done to this nation due to your forethought, in everything and everywhere, most noble Felix, we accept with all thankfulness. ⁴ But that I not hinder you further, I beseech you to hear us briefly in your fairness. ⁵ For we have found this man pestilent, and moving rebellion among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, ⁶ who also attempted to profane the temple, whom we took and would have judged according to our Law. ⁷ But the chiliarch Lysias came with much force, taking him away out of our hands, ⁸ commanding his accusers to come to you. By examining him, you yourself may know about all these things of which we accuse him. ⁹ And the Jews also assented, saying that these things were so. ¹⁰ But the governor motioning to him to speak, Paul answered; Understanding you as being a judge of this nation many years, I cheerfully defend myself as to the things concerning myself. ¹¹ You can know that it is not more than twelve days since I went up to Jerusalem to worship. ¹² And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, nor making a gathering of a crowd; not even in the synagogues, nor throughout the city. ¹³ Nor can they prove the things of which they now accuse me.